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Advantages of Outsourcing
Reasons to Outsource
Yankee analyst Helen
Chan blames the low adoption rates on poor vendor products, bad marketing
and poor distribution.
According to Eric
K. Clemons of the Wharton School, there are four benefits to outsourcing.
They are:
- Lower cost.
- More flexibility
- Quicker development
- Accounting.
- In other word,
you incur no overhead costs.
- We provide our
own facilities, systems, bandwidth, and so on.
- You can more easily
adjust personnel to match demand.
- Which can in turn
get your product to market sooner.
Moving resources to a vendor,
gets them off your balance sheet.
- Ease: there
is no need to recruit, hire, or train new employees.
- Simplicity:
you eliminate expenses related to retention of employees, including
insurance, worker's compensation, social security, and company-provided
benefits.
- Expertise:
instantly tap into our engineers' extensive, real-world experience in
key technologies like web/Internet, Java, C++, Windows, Unix, and embedded
systems.
- Synergy:
for larger projects, outsourcing partners like we offer you a team of
experienced developers who have already proven themselves as an effective
unit. Your organization avoids the personality clashes, communication
problems, and other obstacles to building a successful development team.
- Flexibility:
you can scale our involvement in your projects however you wish and
whenever you wish.
- Focus: outsourcing
software projects to us allows your organization to focus on its own
core competencies.
- Confidence:
when working with an established outsourcing partner like AMS, you can
be sure your software projects are completed on time, on budget, and
to specifications.
Nature of Jobs Undertaken/Services
Offered
Areas:
- Application / System
software, middleware, firmware, web applications
- Design and development
- Re-engineering
/ re-write
- Porting
- Migration
- Prototyping
- Bug fixing
- Testing
- Test suites
- Performance optimisation
- Enhancements
Modes of Operation
We can explore the
following modes of operation.
Project Based Association
This would mean that
we work together for execution of specific projects.
We will pool in the resources as and when required.
Continuity which may be required at certain points of time may not be
available. Best suited for very infrequent development requirement.
Establishing Remote Development
Facility
We establish a low
cost development facility dedicated for you. We develop a core team around
which the development activities will revolve. This means continuity and
better utilisation of talents groomed by deploying them into further development
activity.
Methods of Project Execution
We can work on any
of the following models.
Off-Site Development
- You can send
us your requirement specification along with other relevant technical
and interface details.
- We will execute
the project at our location.
- You can periodically
review the progress at each milestone and give us your feedback.
- Release of final
version along with source code and documentation
- Warranty period
of 60 days for bug fixing etc.
- Our continued
support for upgrade, enhancements etc,.
On-Site Development
- Give us your
requirement
- Interview and
select people from our resource pool for placing them at the client's
site
- The client processes
the necessary papers required like work permit etc.
- Personnel despatched
to the site on receipt of documents.
- The project is
executed entirely by us on your behalf or under your supervision
Mixed Development
- Your project
leader controlling our software team working off-site
- Project leader
travels to our facility to brief the team (or) one of our personnel
travels to your facility for project briefing.
- The project is
executed at our facility monitored by the project leader through e-mail
or / and visits periodically.
- Our person comes
over there for implementation, if required Or else
- One of our personnel
is stationed at your end and acts like a bridge.
- He can communicate
to our team here, co-ordinate the project and report to you the progress.
Implementation either by him or other person from the development
team.
Cost Estimate
- On receipt your
specifications, we will estimate the work content and cost. Then we
can mutually agree upon the team size and delivery schedule.
- Mile-Stone Based
Deliverables
- The progress
of the project is completely at your hands, since at each milestone
you will be reviewing the deliverable and giving us the nod to go
to the next phase
- We shall work
on mutually agreed milestones. We will provide deliverables at each
milestone. You can review the progress at each milestone. Payments
will be linked to deliverables at each milestone.
Confidentiality
We assure complete
confidentiality. If needed we can sign agreement for non-discloure of
any propritory information passed on by you.
The Fear of Outsourcing
The Yankee Group estimates
that small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are resistant to outsourcing
in today's economic climate. Yankee found only 6 percent of SMB outsource
their IT, and only 16 percent were "very interested" in application
outsourcing.
The reason for the
reluctance? According to the Yankee Group, top fears of outsourcing applications
included trust and security issues, and picking the wrong vendor.
Philosophy
Business Objective:
ZERO
DEFECT SOFTWARE SERVICES - ON BUDGET, IN TIME, EVERYTIME
AMS will always strive to find a win-win solution for our customers.
We will aim for perfection and lead by example in everything we do while
continuing to perfect the processes.
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